What Fiction are you reading this week, April 14, 2024?

[NanaCat]

21. I was lucky

And snagged the Enger from my library list without a hold. Bloody hell, everything else got yanked up in 5 minutes.

The release I really want, though is Clear by Carys Davies. It's set during the second phase of Highland Clearances (1840s), when the British government sought to 'correct' their previous first round of forcibly evicting Scottish people from their homelands so that the British landowners could maximize their profits. The second round will now evict any stragglers, as well as those evicted to new places (yes, this was stupid). Many Scots would emigrate to American during this second phase (like my nan's grandfather, a wee lad at the time). In this eviction case, a minister takes a job to boot the sole remaining occupant off an isolated island. When the padre arrives, he falls down a cliff and guess who saves him and nurses him back to health? Curious to see how it's handled. I'm high up on the hold list, so I'll learn soon!